Hacker's King

MAY 24, 2025

In simpler terms, phishing scams, brute force attacks, and MFA bypass techniques. Recently, phishing scams have expanded and come out of emails. Phishing is now done through text messages (smishing), social media (social engineering), and even voice phone calls (vishing). Dont place reliance on a single defense.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 20, 2025

From hyper-realistic deepfakes to advanced vishing scams, AI-generated threats have quickly raised the stakes for enterprise security.With AI fundamentally changing both how businesses operate and how cybercriminals attack, organizations must maintain a current and comprehensive understanding of the enterprise AI landscape.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Leveraging its English proficiency, the collective uses social engineering for initial access. Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

While cybersecurity advice is often focused on technology like endpoint protection, firewalls and anti-virus, it’s important to remember that behind every breach is a human. This is a scam that’s been around for years and since no one can reverse a cryptocurrency transaction, it’s very likely here to stay. Who is the Impersonator?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Head Mare hacktivist group targets Russia and Belarus Zyxel fixed critical OS command injection flaw in multiple routers VMware fixed a code execution flaw in Fusion hypervisor U.S.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 18, 2022

Leaked corporate intelligence available online has been the blind spot of Firewalls, anti-malware, and endpoint detection and response (EDR). Less tech-savvy employees are likely to fall victim to social engineering attacks or reveal their or company’s data to a threat actor accidentally.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 3, 2021

However, they often overlook the role of social engineering in cyber security. Hackers use emotions as a social engineering tool, to persuade their victims to take an action they normally would not. Hackers use emotions as a social engineering tool, to persuade their victims to take an action they normally would not.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 2, 2024

This past year set a profound stage, from the advent of stringent cyber regulations to the convergence of generative AI, social engineering, and ransomware. Last year, we witnessed the fast-evolving nature of social engineering attacks, and this evolution poses greater challenges for detection and defense.

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Herjavec Group

MAY 19, 2022

No matter how many firewalls or network controls you have in place, the risk of insider threat will always be present. Conduct regular social engineering tests on your employees to actively demonstrate where improvements need to be made. Segment your internal corporate networks to isolate any malware infections that may arise.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

Phishing is a type of social engineering attack in which bad actors pose as a trustworthy entity via phone, email, or text message in order to steal personal information from the recipient. Attackers may try to get their victims to reveal their date of birth, social security number, credit card information, or account passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 23, 2022

APTs will contain a cyberattack component, but APTs also commonly include confidence schemes, social engineering , physical access to facilities , bribes, extortion, and other methods to gain system access. Use web application firewalls to protect exposed web apps. See the Top Secure Email Gateway Solutions. How to Prevent APTs.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This puts organizations at risk as personal devices may not use the same levels of security, e.g., encryption and firewalls compared to a company device. Providing courses on phishing, password security, identity theft, and social engineering will prepare employees with correct cyber behaviors.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

A DNS firewall and a classic antivirus are somewhat underused yet effective security tools that will come in handy. A mix of social engineering, hacking, and abuse of legitimate services makes this style of online crime incredibly effective. The silver lining is that such scams are fairly easy to avoid.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This includes tools and practices such as encryption, which secures data by making it unreadable to unauthorized users; firewalls, which monitor and control incoming and outgoing network traffic; and regular software updates to close security gaps as they arise.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Leveraging its English proficiency, the collective uses social engineering for initial access. Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2023

This method involves using emails, social media, instant messaging, and other platforms to manipulate users into revealing personal information or performing actions that can lead to network compromise, data loss, or financial harm. social engineering tactics and strange sender behaviors), they also use artificial intelligence algorithms.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 7, 2025

Traditional Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) are going to struggle to keep pace with these changes, leading to the rise of API Native WAFs and WAF Agents as superior solutions. AI-powered attacks, like deepfake video scams, have been limited to date. One example of an AI-powered attack is the use of deepfakes to scam individuals.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Another example seen this year was KV-Botnet , which was deployed on vulnerable firewalls, routers and IP cameras and used to conceal the malicious activities of Volt Typhoon, the actor behind it. In the past, voice impersonation wasn’t considered a major threat, which is why such scams can be so convincing.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

It is essential to note that while phishing-resistant MFA is most effective against AI-enabled social engineering attacks, any form of MFA is much better than no MFA at all. In addition, there’s great business value behind adopting MFA.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

It is essential to note that while phishing-resistant MFA is most effective against AI-enabled social engineering attacks, any form of MFA is much better than no MFA at all. In addition, there’s great business value behind adopting MFA.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This underscores the importance of having additional compensating controls and educating employees on the risks associated with phishing and other social engineering attacks. To enhance security, organizations should block direct internet access to RDP services using firewalls and restrict access to internal networks and VPNs.

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Cytelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

To protect against these types of threats, businesses should invest in strong cybersecurity measures, such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and encryption. Another way hackers use the dark web to target businesses is through Ransomware.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Many of these attacks prey upon human nature by using social engineering tactics to trick a user into inadvertently allowing ransomware onto their system, under the guise of something legitimate. Fake applications are used for many different kinds of scams, including the spreading of ransomware.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Here are only seven out of 26 topics: Insider threats Passwords Security of mobile devices Social engineering Viruses Email security Human error To start the course, you need to register and choose the type of account you need. In case of falling for a scam, you or your staff are getting an email with a related lesson.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 9, 2023

WithSecure Elements Vulnerability Management automatically reports activities such as phishing sites, third-party scams, and brand violations. Among the platform’s standout features is its phishing module, which is comprehensive and helps build a “human firewall” of sorts.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

However companies should avoid being an easy target by having strict security policies, investing in staff security training, installing appropriate antivirus software and firewalls, and ensuring that computer systems and software are always kept up to date.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Firewall – a network security system that filters unsanctioned incoming and outgoing traffic. Hacking and Social Engineering Attack vector – a specific method used by a hacker to accomplish his malicious goal. Exploit – a weak spot in a computer system, which can be used to attack this system.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

The social engineering aspect around phishing works because humans want to be helpful, informed, paid well, get stuff for free sometimes, and generally not end up on the wrong side of management. Unfortunately, aspects of really good social engineering prey on one or more of these human traits (or faults). Figure 2: Spam.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This underscores the importance of having additional compensating controls and educating employees on the risks associated with phishing and other social engineering attacks. To enhance security, organizations should block direct internet access to RDP services using firewalls and restrict access to internal networks and VPNs.

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Security Through Education

JUNE 22, 2021

Throughout the scam, fraudsters will often build trust with their targets via computer, phone, and the mail. According to NOCA (National Council on Aging) these are the top ten financial scams targeting the elderly as of February 2021. Government Imposter Scams. The grandparent scam. Medicare/health insurance scams.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. A firewall can be effective in stopping the spread of worms through network endpoints. It could be hidden in a malicious advertisement, fake email or illegitimate software installation.

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Webroot

JANUARY 5, 2022

Each year, as online shopping ramps up in the weeks before the holidays, so do online scams targeting the elderly. In fact, COVID-19, Zoom meetings, vaccination recommendations and travel warnings all provide ample and unique precedent for social engineering attacks. The most common types of online elder fraud.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

“The use of deepfake techniques in fraudulent activities… will elevate the sophistication of phishing fraud, making it increasingly challenging for users to distinguish between legitimate services and scams.” continues Ricardo Villadiego, founder & CEO of Lumu. “By

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 19, 2021

In these attacks, hackers use social engineering tactics to impersonate a company employee – usually a member of the finance team or C-suite – in order to push through a fraudulent invoice payment or bank transfer, claiming to be from a supplier, contractor or partner. The reputational effects .

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